Don't put partisanship ahead of human lives

All I see in the news is how America is struggling to deal with the coronavirus and how we are failing to successfully do anything to stop the virus. To get through, this we have to work together as a country to coordinate actions that we need to take to flatten the curve. We need to stop fighting one another for power in the government, because all that it is doing is dividing us against one another, which will cause us to fall, not to stand as one of our Founding Fathers, as James Madison conceptualized.

This is an unprecedented time and we need swift action and the ability to come together that we had after other great times of crisis that hit our country, 9/11 and World War II, can be things that we can look back on in history and think of the togetherness that we had then and compare it to what we have now. We need to be willing to make sacrifices to save the lives of tens of thousands and it is our duty to try and relieve the burden on the medical workers who not only have to deal with the physical hardship of constant stress for 12-hour shifts, but to watch people die and choose who gets ventilators when there is not enough.

We have to ask ourselves what we are doing and what we can do to help our fellow Americans and the real heroes of this "war." If we do not come together now, in a situation where tens of thousands are dying in our cities, our towns, then when will we ever be able to? The message that it sends my generation would be a message of incompetence and disgrace for putting partisanship over human lives.

Robert McKee

Mundelein